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Comparing [tag:comparative-review] to a regular review

I think that a comparative review should be 2 questions, and then the user can take the answers from both and do the comparing on their own. then they can decide what is going to work best for their ...
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How do comparative reviews ...compare to the rest of CR questions?

I stumbled upon this question in the reopen queue, and looking at it I could find reasons to leave it closed, so I voted [leave closed]. Then I was curious about what made it gather so many reopen ...
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Uses of [comparative-review]

I recently discovered this comparative-review tag while reading some PE questions. It says: This tag is used for questions which present a problem and multiple solutions, where the asker wishes to ...
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Questions about speed/memory comparisons

This question should be considered as an expansion discussion on the policy discussed in Should comparisons of code snippets be closed as "not seeking a code review"? For comparative ...
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Should comparisons of code snippets be closed as "not seeking a code review"?

I've been seeing some "A vs. B" questions for a while, and I'm not sure if they're considered on-topic for this site. Many of these questions are not asking for a review, but which code snippet is ...
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Is it okay to ask which snippet is considered the most clean?

Is it on-topic to ask a question with two more or less equivalent snippets, and ask which of the two snippets is considered the most clean? The way I see it, there are four possible answers here: ...
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